Michael Lai
Senior Customer Solutions Architect at Caylent
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Lai is a Senior Customer Solutions Architect with nearly a decade of experience designing cloud-first, resilient, and secure applications across AWS, Azure, and GCP. He blends hands-on software development (JavaScript, Python, React, Ruby on Rails, PHP and mobile frameworks) with pre-sales and technical advisory, having driven customer modernization and workload growth at AWS and enterprise engagements at Caylent and SMX. Michael excels at turning complex federal and EdTech requirements into well-architected, highly available solutions, and has a track record of producing demos, PoCs, RFPs, and reusable architecture artifacts that accelerate deals. He pairs an MS in Technology Innovation and an Industrial Engineering background with practical experience in accessibility, API lifecycle management, and Lean Six Sigma process improvements. Known for a pragmatic, product-focused mindset—“no wrong answer, just the best fit”—he’s equally comfortable mentoring teams, teaching web development, or diving into cybersecurity and web3 explorations. Based in Austin, he brings both consulting breadth and developer depth to customer-facing cloud transformations.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Technology Innovation, Master of Science Technology Innovation at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science - Industrial Engineering Statistics, Bachelor of Science - Industrial Engineering Statistics at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (35)
tricks6
forking6
expressjs6
jquery5
javascript4
checkpoint4
ajax4
nodejs4
css4
drawing4
api4
dom4
omdb-api2
rails-api1
sealed1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MichaelZLai/SnapMap
Nov 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:50 commits, 46 pushes, 2 branches in 24 days
MichaelZLai/michaelzlai.github.io
Sep 2016 - Oct 2019
My Personal Website
Contributions:80 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
reactnextjs
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